A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
- Easily erasable paper— 608.01 ; 714.05 ; 714.07 ; 714.19
- Effective date
- Effective filing date
- Eighteen-month publication ( See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
- Election (
See also
Restriction and
Election of species)—
800
- Action on nonelected claims— 819
- After multiplicity rejection— 2173.05(n)
- After restriction— 818
- Applicant must make— 818.03
- Between applications, Conflicting claims— 804 ; 822 ; 822.01
- Constructive—
818.02(a)
;
818.02(c)
- In reissue application— 1450
- Fixed by action on merits— 818.01 ; 818.02(a)
- Implied— 818.02(a) ; 818.02(c)
- Interference— 819
- Optional cancellation— 818.02(c)
- Original presentation— 818.02(a)
- Shift— 819
- Treatment of nonelected claims—
706.03(m)
;
821
–
821.03
- In reissue application— 1450
- With traverse— 818 ; 818.03 ; 818.03(b) ; 818.03(c) ; 821.01
- Without traverse— 821.02
- Election of species
- Allowable generic claim lacking— 809.02(a)
- Basis— 806.04 ; 808.01(a)
- Canceling species claims— 818.02(c) ; 821.01 ; 821.02
- Design application— 1504.05
- Implied— 818.02(a) ; 818.02(c)
- Reissue application— 1450
- Requirement— 806.01 ; 809.02(a)
- Requirement, prior to search— 808.01(a)
- Species claims lacking— 806.01 ; 818.02(b)
- Electronic access to published applications— 1128
- Electronic databases (
See also
PALM and
PAIR)—
706.02(e)
;
719.05
;
901.06(a)
;
902.03(e)
;
1730
- Cassis DVD-ROM— 902.03(d)
- Chemical abstracts services— 905.06
- Derwent’s World Patents Index (WPI)— 905.06
- Dialog— 905.06
- e- Official Gazette – Patents (eOG:P)— 1703
- EAST— 719.05 ; 902.03(e)
- INPADOC— 905.06
- Lexis-Nexis— 719.05
- Official Gazette Notices— 1703
- Patent Grants Database— 1703 ; 1730
- Questel-Orbit— 719.05 ; 905.06
- TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System)— 1703 ; 1730
- WEST— 719.05 ; 902.03(e)
- Electronic Business Center (EBC)— 1730
- Electronic document— 707.05(e)
- Electronic filing system-Web (EFS-Web)—
502.05
;
503
- Actions permitted by registered users— 502.05
- Actions permitted by unregistered users— 502.05
- Alternatives to using EFS-Web—
502.05
- During unscheduled outages (EFS-Web Contingency Option)— 502.05
- Certificate of Transmission— 512
- Document description codes— 502.05
- Document formats— 502.05
- Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt— 502.05
- Ex parte reexamination request and follow-on papers— 502.05 ; 2224
- Inter partesreexamination request and follow-on papers— 502.05 ; 2624
- Petition to accept unintentionally delayed payment of maintenance fee— 502.05 ; 2590
- Pre-grant (eighteen month) publication submissions via— 502.05 ; 1121 ; 1129 ; 1130 ; 1132 ; 1133
- Reissue application and follow-on papers— 502.05 ; 1410
- Electronic funds transfer to replenish deposit account— 509.01
- Electronic Information Disclosure Statement (e-IDS)— 609.07
- Electronic mail— 502.03 ; 713 ; 713.01 ; 713.04 ; 713.05
- Electronic patent assignment system (EPAS)— 302.10 ; 502.05
- Electronic Processing of Information Disclosure Statement— 609.08
- Electronic publications
- Employee number— 711.04(b) ; 905.03
- Employees of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, property interest in patent—
309
- Enablement—
706.03(c)
;
2164
- Burden on the examiner— 2164.04
- Commensurate in scope with claims—
2164.08
- Critical feature not claimed— 2164.08(c)
- Inoperative subject matter— 2164.08(b)
- Single means claim— 2164.08(a)
- Compared to utility— 2164.07
- Design patent application— 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Duty or disclosure of information relevant to— 2001.04
- Evidence of— 2164.05
- Examples of enablement issues— 2164.06
- Form paragraphs used to reject— 706.03(c)
- Reduction to practice— 2164.02
- Relationship of predictability— 2164.03
- Specification must be enabling
- As of the filing date— 2164.05(a)
- To persons of ordinary skill— 2164.05(b)
- Test of enablement— 2164.01
- 35 U.S.C. 112, sixth paragraph limitations— 2181 ; 2185
- Energy, Department of— 115 ; 706.03(b)
- English language faulty, new specification— 608.01(q)
- English language required— 302.02 ; 608.01
- Enrollment and Discipline, Office of ( See Office of Enrollment and Discipline)
- Entity, small, claiming status as ( See Small entity status)
- Entry of amendment ( See also Amendment)— 714.18
- Entry of “Contents” of file wrapper— 719.01
- Entry on face of file wrapper— 719.02 ; 719.02(b)
- Environmental Quality Program— 708.02
- Equity (civil action)
- Equivalents in art— 904.01(b) ; 2144.06
- Erasable (specially coated) paper— 608.01
- Erasure in specification, before allowance— 1302.01
- Erasure in specification, before execution— 608.01
- Errors ( See also Correction of patent)
- Essential material— 608.01(p)
- Establishing subclasses— 903.02(c)
- Estoppel
- Abandonment— 711.03(c)
- Collateral— 2012.01
- Defensive publications— 711.06
- Different inventive entities and commonly owned applications— 804.03
- Interference— 715 ; 2138.01
- Reasons for allowance— 1302.14
- Reissue proceedings— 2012.01
- Statutory, inter partes reexamination— 2601 ; 2612 ; 2614
- Terminal disclaimer— 804 ; 804.02
- European Community Design treaty ( See Treaties)
- European Patent Convention ( See Treaties)
- European Patent Office (EPO)—
120
;
609
;
901.05
;
905.06
;
1801
;
1823.02
;
1827.01
;
1840
;
1840.01
;
1843.02
;
1850
;
1851
;
1857
;
1860
;
1865
;
1865.01
;
1893.03(g)
;
2422.04
- Address— 1865
- Evidence, of public use or on sale— 2133.03 – 2133.03(b)
- Evidence submitted with protest— 1901.02
- Examination guidelines for applying reference under 35 U.S.C. 102(e)— 706.02(f)(1)
- Examination of application— 700
- Examiner
- Action— 707
- Action counted— 1705
- Affidavit— 2144.03
- Assignment of application for examination— 903.08(b)
- Assignment of ex-parte reexamination— 2236
- Assignment of inter partes reexamination— 2636
- Assistant— 707.01 ; 707.02
- Citing prior art in an issued patent inappropriate— 2203
- Classification ( See also Classification examiner)— 903
- Consultation with Reexamination Legal Advisor (RLA)— 2633 ; 2671 ; 2676 ; 2679 ; 2686.01
- Disposals— 1705
- Duty of candor and good faith to— 2001.03
- Employee number— 711.04(b) ; 905.03 ; 905.05
- Expressing opinion of validity— 1701
- Name— 502 ; 707.09 ; 1302.13
- New action indicated by primary— 707.01
- Previous action by another examiner
- Primary
- Pursuit of bounties prohibited— 1701
- Reasons for allowance— 1302.14
- Resigns, old cases special— 708.03
- Suggestion of allowable claims— 707.07(j)
- Supervisory ( See Supervisory patent examiner)
- Telephoning attorney— 408 ; 1302.14
- Testimony as patent expert— 1701.01
- Time and Activity Report— 1704 ; 1705
- Time reporting for ex parte reexamination— 2238
- Time reporting for inter partes reexamination— 2638
- Treatment of protest— 1901.06
- Examiner docket, time, and activity recording— 1704 ; 1705
- Examiner Reissue Guide and Checklist— 1443
- Examiner’s action ( See also Action and Letter, Examiner’s)— 707
- Examiner’s amendment—
1302.04
- Abstract changed by— 608.01(b) ; 1302.01 ; 1302.04
- By initialing— 1302.04
- Claim, antecedent basis in description— 608.01(o)
- Claim lost in interference— 2308
- Claim, nonstatutory, canceled— 1302.04(b)
- Claim, numbers identifying— 1302.01 ; 1302.04(g)
- Claims, nonelected invention, canceled— 821.01 ; 821.02
- Copending application data brought up to date— 201.11
- Defensive publication— 711.06
- Deposit account charge— 1302.04
- Drawing correction— 608.02(w) ; 1302.04
- Extension of time required for— 706.07(f)
- Formal matters— 1302.01 ; 1302.04
- IFW applications— 1302.04
- Informalities corrected— 1302.04
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of— 714 ; 1302.04
- No new matter— 608.01(o)
- Plant patent application practice— 1610
- Reexamination
- Reference citation corrected— 707.05(g)
- Title of application— 606.01
- Examiner’s Answer
- Examiner’s letter (
See also
Action)—
707
- Abandonment— 711.02
- Advisory action— 706.07(f) ; 714.13
- Amendment after final rejection— 714.13
- Arguments answered— 707.07(f)
- Cancellation of nonelected claim— 821.01 ; 821.02
- Claim allowable except as to form— 707.07(a) ; 707.07(j) ; 710.02(b) ; 714.15
- Claim summary— 707.07(i)
- Complete and clear— 707.07
- Copies of references— 707.05(a)
- Copy to applicant— 707.12
- Correction, period for reply— 707.05(g) ; 710.06
- Correction of citation— 707.05(g)
- Date stamped— 707.11
- Decisions, cited— 707.06
- Drafting criticism in first Office action— 608.02(a)
- Election of species required, concluding paragraph— 809.02(a)
- Examiner signature at end of letter— 707.09
- Examiner’s amendments— 706.07(f) ; 1302.04
- File wrapper entry— 707.10 ; 719.01
- Final rejection, clearly stated— 706.07
- Final rejection, concluding statement— 706.07
- Final rejection, patentability report— 705.01(a)
- First action, includes drafting comments— 608.02(a)
- Formal matters— 707.07(a) ; 707.07(e) ; 707.07(j) ; 714.02
- Full anticipation, expressions used— 706.02(c) ; 706.07(d)
- Informal application— 702.01
- Initialed by examiner— 707.08
- Language in rejecting— 707.07(d)
- Mailing— 707.12
- Memorandum cited— 707.06
- New drawing required— 608.02(b)
- New examiner, primary examiner indicates— 707.01
- Notices cited— 707.06
- Numbering of paragraphs— 707.07(k)
- Omnibus rejection— 707.07(d)
- Orders cited— 707.06
- Outstanding requirements— 707.07(e)
- Personal matter excluded— 707.07(d)
- Piecemeal prosecution— 707.07(g)
- Power of attorney invalid or lacking— 402
- Preliminary amendment in new case— 709 ; 714.01(e)
- Primary examiner signs— 706.07 ; 707.01 ; 707.09
- Primary examiner’s attention required, list— 1004
- References, citation— 707.05 – 707.05(g) ; 901.04 ; 901.05(a)
- Refusing entry of amendment after Board decision— 1214.07
- Rejection of claim corresponding to claim of patent— 2302
- Remailing— 707.13 ; 710.06
- Requirement for information— 706.02(c)
- Restriction requirement— 803 ; 817
- Returned— 707.13
- Reviewed by examiner— 707.08
- Shortened time for reply— 710.02
- Signature— 707.09 ; 707.10 ; 1302.13
- Statement of rejection— 707.07(d)
- Status letter reply— 203.08
- Statutory basis— 707.07(d)
- Summary— 707.07(i)
- Supplemental— 710.06
- Undelivered— 707.13
- Examiner’s search facilities, use regulations— 510
- Example, Comments on— 707.07(l)
- Example, Operative— 608.01(p) ; 2164.02
- Example, Prophetic, simulated or predicted— 608.01(p)
- Excess number of claims for fee, after notice of allowance— 714.16(c)
- Excess number of claims over number of claims previously paid for— 714.01(e) ; 714.10
- Excluded attorney or agent— 105 ; 407 ; 713.05 ; 714.19
- Execution of oath— 604 ; 605.04(a)
- Executive Order
- Executor or administrator—
409.01
;
605.05
- Allowance and issue— 409.01(f)
- Application by, after discharge— 409.01(c)
- Assigned application, inventor dies— 409.01(e)
- Consular certificate— 409.01(b)
- Foreign country— 409.01(b) ; 409.01(d)
- Heir— 409.01 ; 409.01(a) ; 409.01(b) ; 409.01(d)
- Intervention not required— 409.01(f)
- Joint inventors, inventor dies— 409.01(f)
- Specification form— 605.05
- Exhibit— 608.03
- Exhibit, Affidavit under 37 CFR 1.131— 715.07 ; 715.07(d)
- Exhibit at interview— 713.08
- Exhibit, handling— 608.03(a)
- Ex parte questions— 713.06
- Expedited Right of Appeal Notice— 2671 ; 2673.02
- Experimental use (
See also
Public use)—
2133.03
;
2133.03(e)
- Commercial exploitation— 2133.03(e)(1)
- Completeness of the invention— 2133.03(e)(3)
- Factors indicative of— 2133.03(e)(4) ; 2133.03(e)(5)
- Intent to experiment— 2133.03(e)(2)
- Reduction to practice— 2133.03(e)(3)
- Testing by third party— 2133.03(e)(5) ; 2133.03(e)(7)
- Testing, developmental— 2133.03(e)(6)
- When experimental use ends— 2133.03(e)(3)
- Expert testimony— 1504.03
- Expiration date of patent ( See also Term, Patent)
- Export control of patent applications— 120
- Exposure of papers during interviews— 101 ; 713.07
- Expounding patent law— 713.02
- Express abandonment— 711 ; 711.01
- Express Mail deposit— 513
- Express Mail Procedure in ex parte reexamination— 2224
- Express Mail Procedure in inter partes reexamination— 2624 ; 2665 ; 2666 ; 2666.05
- Express Mail service— 502 ; 506.02 ; 511 ; 513 ; 711.03(c) ; 1216.01 ; 2510
- Expunge information in application file— 724.05 ; 724.06 ; 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(c)
- Extension of shortened reply period— 710.02(e)
- Extension of time— 706.07(f) ; 710.02(e) ; 1002.02(c)
- Extension, patent term ( See Term, Patent)
- Extraordinary situations
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